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D517 - Miller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor - [16th-20th cent]
F - Family papers - [early 16th cent]-1982
FNCM - Papers of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (1739-1815) - 1811
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D517/BOX/B/17
Title
Unbound printed volume of poetry: 'Needwood Forest' by Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
Date
1811
Description
Front page reads 'Needwood Forest written in the year 1776. Never Published. Re-printed at the office of J Drewry 1811'. Following 'Needwood Forest' are a few shorter poems: 'To the Honorable Elizabeth Sedley, learning to spin, She and the Author equally having an aversion to a Spider', 'My Grand Climacteric, 1802', 'To My Grandson William, On his repeating to me most perfectly and accurately my Poem 'The Fall of Needwood' Which he had secretly got by heart. January 1809', 'On a Picture by R R Reinagle Representing me in an easy armed Chair, which Mrs. M took kind pains to procure for me; my grandson William reading to me; a volume of Burn's Justice, an Act of Parliament, and Books of Poetry on the table; the Portrait of myself a favoured likeness'
Included with the poem loose are two engravings: 'A View in Needwood Forest from the Holly Falls' and 'The Fall of Needwood', published 9 Nuly 1811 by J Landseer, London, M E Sneyd del
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1 file
Level
File
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Miller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor
Related Material
See D505/M/4/26/25 for a manuscript of Needwood Forest
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